Show INDIAN depredations IN M TOOELE toome durin during the winter the indians have com malted mitt ed many depredation depredations on the citizens of tooele thoele too ele eie county and on ont others having 1 stock in that valley by stealing cattle and horses often on a large scale taking at a time from ten to twenty head of cattle and on one occasion twelve or afif fifteen teen borses gorses horsek besides committing smaller thefts by appropriating 13 to their use usa one to three beeves in one night as circumstances favored their weir operations their clandestine acts acab have been carried to that extent that the people have haye become wearied with the tle tie excessive taxation to which they haye have been and still attil are subjected by those seif belf self constituted publicans public alv alp ans ars who da banot always make their levies upon the thearo pro tata rafa principle on or about the instant as we are informed by a citizen of that county some indians indiana supposed to belong t to the bands that have been committing murders and depredations along the thie california mail uail route as they came from and went in that direction stole and drove off oft in the time from the vicinity of grantsville Grants ville some ten or twelve head of cattle cattie e principal y belonging to prest ILC inc IL C kimball Kimba II instead of following the as soon as the theft was discovered next morning 0 as should have been done if their was no 1 inhibiting n hi circumstance to prevent the cattle recovered and the bf fenders offenders properly and bately safely secured if possible it was thought 0 proper erp era for or various reasons to arrest some eight indians who were encamped near grants vine ville for complicity in the thieving transaction tio n on the ground that those who drove off the cattle pere vere at their lodges the evening previous to the commission of the deed soon after ter those indians were arrested one of them made his escape the other seven were chained or fastena together towe toge 0 thery two and two and placed under guard and tind kept in confinement till thursday night last when they the tok advantage an tage of the sleepiness and carelessness of the guards to effect their escape taking with them the arm s of 0 two of the guards who were asle asie asleep ep on eg from their prison house bouse they shot one of the tile men on guard through his right shoulder and put off as fast as they the y could donld go in their fettered condition they had not proceeded far before one of the guards fired and severely if not mortally wounded one indian his ilia comrade after taking in t him about half a mile succeeded ln ing the shackles that fastened them together and left him behind there was a dense fog foo diffused over the surrounding 0 country at the time andin the indians ma made degood good their escape escaped and had not heen been found the iasi lasi last heard beard from the bee see scene no of the disastrous af f fair air the escape of the indians under ulder suca cir I 1 cum stances was an unfortunate event and will in all probability result sooner or later in the death dea of some innocent persons and stock in that region will not be as safe ag it foie fole the occurrence if it was good peacy to arrest the indians indian s and place them in confinement it was certainly not wise to sa set men to guard them who were hot not not known to be faithful and true though thou ii it is admitted that men may be deceived in in relation to the integrity integer ty of those with whom they have been ac ilai abed for years such may have hare been the case in this instance but sleepy stupid carel carci careless ess men should never when known to be such be in trusted with the discharge of a duty which if not properly performed will bring 0 evil upon themselves aves and others since nce nee writing the foregoing t 0 we have received a communication from judge greene in relation to the matter which will be foun found d in another column |